Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre - Newsletters

Hello Dear Friends and Supporters! Thank you for your wonderful support throughout the year, which has been invaluable to us. We are organizing a few events before Christmas and we would like you to be involved in them!

Sausages Sizzle at Bunnings COME ALONG TO OUR SAUSAGE SIZZLE AT BUNNINGS NOARLUNGA Saturday 12th December 2013, from 10am to 4pm Help cook sausages and raise money for the Native Animal Rescue Centre's work. Buy a snag to help our wildlife or help to cook, serve, or take money on the day! We need your help, you are welcome to join the crew. Please let me know if you can help us out? Ph. 0422938439

Molly the baby Koala

planting gums and seeds

Molly the baby Koala

We have had a myriad of rescues from tortoises,
lizards and echidnas to kangaroos, possums, tawny frogmouths and koalas over
the past months. Weighing in at just 670 grams, little Molly koala’s mother was
mauled and killed by dogs as the tiny baby clung to her back. She had dog
saliva and blood on her back but no injuries!

She cried throughout the night so
I fed her at 2am and 6am to settle her. By lunchtime she fed well, had a huge
wee and started to eat gum leaves!!! What a little battler?

She was doing very well on 4 hourly feeds 24/7,
sometimes adding up to 8 times a day to give her strength and get her gaining
weight. The newly planted gums we have planted for koala food have been handy
already and very successful.

Donate today and help rescue Koalas!Please Click on the Donate button, thanks

Pouches Protect Possums

The donated pouches from Ivy, that are posted down from Mt Barker by her, have been such a comfort to the baby possums and to Molly that she stopped crying for her Mum, even without her teddy. She was quite relaxed, warm and comfortable in them, as were the 9 possums in the hospital! Thanks Ivy!

Kookaburra Laughs Again

We had a male kookaburra for a couple of weeks after he was hit by a car and had concussion and spinal injury. He began to eat well after a week but still couldn't fly.

He eventually was flying strongly so I took him home to the exact address that he was found because they are intensely territorial, and will be killed in another kookaburras’ territory.

I released him toward some gum trees on the property and he flew off well and sat happily in a gum.

As I walked away I could hear him laughing and talking to another kookaburra so I had to go back and have a look. There he was all puffed, up wing to wing cuddled up to his lady wife on the branch. She had been waiting for him all that time.

I tried to record their singing and cuddles but they flew off into the bush, so happy to have each other again. I smiled for at least an hour! Another successful rescue!

Seeds of ThanksThank you to Coromandel Natives for the koala gums and to B.T.Financial for planting 250 seedlings in the koala feed paddock, and CVA for planting the under storey plants and weeding them all.

Special Thanks

Special thanks to Mark Burns from L J Hooker Blackwood for kindly printing the Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre Newsletter. Mark is to be congratulated for his empathy and compassion towards the work and the improvement of our environmental biodiversity.

Andy Scott for compiling our printed Newsletters so professionally.

This information is distributed throughout the community to educate members and to assist our native wildlife. It is an invaluable tool and very much needed.

Thank you Mark and Andy, from Bev Langley and all of the rescued wildlife of Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre.

Help rehabilitate Echidnas? Please click the Donate button

Lucky Echidna

I received a very weak echidna
from a Vet, which had been run over at the MacDonald's corner on Cross Road x
Goodwood road intersection! X-rays showed no injury or broken bones.

He
progressed to a round tank and each day became stronger and more active until
he could bury himself in the leaf mulch and behave normally.

I took him back to
the gully above Carrick Hill and released him into a cool lush gully full of
decomposing wood so he could find a good food source. He happily wandered off
and bunkered down near a protective rock to wait for dusk to continue his
life's journey, none the worse for the experience!

Food Appeal News

Sincere thanks to all who Donated Seeds and Cereals for last years Minton Farm Food Appeal. The produce is invaluable with a high volume of rescued Native Animals needing housing here at the moment.

The Food Appeal IS ON AGAIN SOON thanks to the support of Mark Burns from LJ Hooker Blackwood. Mark is the instigator of the Minton Farm Food Appeal and deserves your support. Should you be considering buying/selling your home I can recommend his integrity. Thanks everyone for your involvement and support.

Thank you Mr Hooker, and everyone who Donated Food

ducklings saved

Garage SaleYes!! Once again we will be opening our container and double shed for you to rummage through the drawers for a bargain!! Mark your diaries for Saturday 23rd November, 9am to 4pm. Come and join the fun and help a great cause at the same time. Donations of goods welcomed prior to and on the day. (No televisions please).

Bedding, Baskets and Bears Needed for Koala Care!

We always need large Toy Teddies and Toy Bunnies for the Koala Joeys to cling to, in various sizes from approx. 20cms up to approx. 50cms.

Cotton bunny Rugs and baby Sleeping Bags are excellent for Koala joeys to sleep in. If you don’t need yours any more, donate to us, they will be put to good use! Koala Joeys are kept in Cane Baskets with a handle over the top so that it can be hung in a tree with their teddy for security, whilst they learn to navigate branches and munch on leaves. We look forward to receiving donations from you, as they are extremely useful and really help us keep running costs down.

If you have any thing that you would like to donate for Koala Rehabilitation, we would be deeply grateful.

... is a not for profit, native animal rescue centre in Cherry Gardens, South Australia. The Aim of the centre is to rescue, rehabilitate and release injured and orphaned native animals and birds, as a free community service. It is operated by the involvement of volunteers who assist with the maintenance of the Centre and Animal Rescue Hospital, and with caring for the animals. There is no formal funding for the work, which has rescued over 8,600 creatures in the on-site Intensive Care Unit, with equally as many off-site through rescue advice throughout Australasia and beyond via our website, email and phone.

There are 300 animals housed within 6 acres of fox and cat proofed fencing, in species specific enclosures. Species assisted include kangaroos, possums, wombats, koalas, emu, eagles, kookaburras, tawny frogmouths, wombats and a myriad of parrots and lorikeets. In addition to this, there are the farm animals ranging from ducks, geese and peacocks through to donkey, ponies, pigs and deer.

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